Tuxpaint: hook ‘em on open source graphics while they’re young

Tuxpaint is an open source graphics program that occupies a special niche: it is designed for children. This makes it a rarity in the software community known for every developer scratching his or her own itch. Tuxpaint has just six tools: paintbrush, rubber stamp, line tool, text tool, polygon tool, and eraser.

Tuxpaint has just six tools: paintbrush, rubber stamp, line tool, text tool, polygon tool, and eraser. But it extends these with a range of options. There are a variety of paint brushes, some of which include some very interesting features, such as animation or movement-activated shape morphing. The animal-shaped brushes, for example, create brush stamps that appear to run and jump as you drag the cursor along.

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